Sri Lanka's Angelo Mathews has made unwanted cricketing history at the World Cup in India, being dismissed 'timed out' in a seven-wicket defeat to Bangladesh.
Veteran politician Ranil Wickremesinghe has been sworn in as Sri Lanka's new president to take charge of a nation bitterly angry he will remain in power amid an unprecedented economic crisis.
Calm has returned to the streets of Sri Lanka's commercial capital Colombo and protesters were jubilant as President Gotabaya Rajapaksa agreed to resign after his house was stormed amid outrage over the South Asia nation's collapsing economy.
Sri Lanka's prime minister says its debt-laden economy has "collapsed" after months of shortages of food, fuel and electricity, and the South Asian island nation cannot even purchase imported oil.
Sri Lanka's prime minister has resigned to make way for a unity government that will try to find a way out of the country's worst ever economic crisis but protesters say they also want his brother to stand down as president.
Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has offered to resign amid the island nation's worst economic crisis since independence that has led to widespread protests, a government official says.
